Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen
@kreskildsen.bsky.social
History of sciences, humanities, and universities. Interested in alternatives and experiments in higher education, and likes old stuff. Author of "Modern Historiography in the Making" (Bloomsbury, 2022).
https://forskning.ruc.dk/en/persons/eskild
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Things of the Past
Cambridge Core - Global History - Things of the Past
www.cambridge.org
My book, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning, is now available for free download from CUP, until November 13.
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
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Wow!
I am suddenly wishing I hadn’t just closed down my history of consumption class.
I am suddenly wishing I hadn’t just closed down my history of consumption class.
Last chance for free download today!
My book, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning, is now available for free download from CUP, until November 13.
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
November 13, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Wow!
I am suddenly wishing I hadn’t just closed down my history of consumption class.
I am suddenly wishing I hadn’t just closed down my history of consumption class.
Last chance for free download today!
My book, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning, is now available for free download from CUP, until November 13.
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
Things of the Past
Cambridge Core - Global History - Things of the Past
www.cambridge.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Last chance for free download today!
Thank you for sharing and for the collaboration. I could not have wished for a better series editor than @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social
Congratulations to @kreskildsen.bsky.social on the publication of his @universitypress.cambridge.org THINGS OF THE PAST: a modern yearning, in the Elements in Historical Theory and Practice series. Free to download till 13 November at DOI: 10.1017/9781009342988. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Things of the Past
Cambridge Core - Global History - Things of the Past
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Thank you for sharing and for the collaboration. I could not have wished for a better series editor than @woolf-atthedoor.bsky.social
My book, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning, is now available for free download from CUP, until November 13.
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
Things of the Past
Cambridge Core - Global History - Things of the Past
www.cambridge.org
October 30, 2025 at 8:44 AM
My book, Things of the Past: A Modern Yearning, is now available for free download from CUP, until November 13.
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
It offers a short global history of our longing for historical artefacts, discussing Asia, Africa, Europe, South- and North America.
Please share and comment!
Reposted by Kasper Risbjerg Eskildsen
After a decade of History of Humanities as a new discipline, the moment has come to take stock. How has the field developed across the world?
Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!
www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...
Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!
www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...
Digital Round Table: Global Perspectives on the History of the Humanities (Dec 5th) – Society for the History of the Humanities
www.historyofhumanities.org
October 22, 2025 at 5:43 PM
After a decade of History of Humanities as a new discipline, the moment has come to take stock. How has the field developed across the world?
Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!
www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...
Join our digital round table on December 5, to discuss this question. We have speakers from all continents!
www.historyofhumanities.org/2025/10/15/d...
My workplace ...
Roskilde University was founded by a surprising alliance of parliamentary parties and radical student movements both trying to reform the old universities. It was an experiment characterized by interdisciplinary and collaborative problem-driven approaches to learning and radical ideas. 1/3
Roskilde University is a reform university founded in 1972 as an experimental educational institution, which emphasized student-led and problem-driven pedagogy. Historically it was very left-leaning, but that unfortunately does not hold true today, only in the right-wing’s imagination.
September 14, 2025 at 10:16 AM
My workplace ...
Sad story. The University of Chicago is, or was?, a unique institution. In related news, their program in history of science has just paused accepting new graduate students. Maybe they should make some spots available for studying the recent history of the University of Chicago?
A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
August 17, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Sad story. The University of Chicago is, or was?, a unique institution. In related news, their program in history of science has just paused accepting new graduate students. Maybe they should make some spots available for studying the recent history of the University of Chicago?
Lost El Dorado. Figure of ruler of the Muisca, bringing gold offerings to the Gods on Lake Guatavita. Photo from the collection of Salomón Koppel and his wife, Bogotá, around 1880. The figure was bought by Adolf Bastian and disappeared in a warehouse fire in Bremen. Museo Nacional de Colombia.
March 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Lost El Dorado. Figure of ruler of the Muisca, bringing gold offerings to the Gods on Lake Guatavita. Photo from the collection of Salomón Koppel and his wife, Bogotá, around 1880. The figure was bought by Adolf Bastian and disappeared in a warehouse fire in Bremen. Museo Nacional de Colombia.
Ph.D. scholarship (by international standards, very well paid) available in my department. If anyone, or anyone's student, should be interested, please let me know. I would be especially happy supervising topics relating to the history and theory of humanities.
PhD Positions at The Department of Communication of Arts, Roskilde University
The Doctoral School of Communication and Arts (DCA), Roskilde University invites for a number of PhD positions. The scholarships are fully funded for 3 yea
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February 27, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Ph.D. scholarship (by international standards, very well paid) available in my department. If anyone, or anyone's student, should be interested, please let me know. I would be especially happy supervising topics relating to the history and theory of humanities.
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Are you interested in the entangled history of humanities and science?
Then join us at the Vossius Center of the University of Amsterdam.
Applications for fellowships in 2026 are now open.
Deadline: 1 June 2025
vossius.uva.nl/shared/subsi...
Then join us at the Vossius Center of the University of Amsterdam.
Applications for fellowships in 2026 are now open.
Deadline: 1 June 2025
vossius.uva.nl/shared/subsi...
Vossius Fund for Research Fellows 2026 open for applications - Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences
The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 1 June 2025 for fellowships in 2026.
vossius.uva.nl
February 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Are you interested in the entangled history of humanities and science?
Then join us at the Vossius Center of the University of Amsterdam.
Applications for fellowships in 2026 are now open.
Deadline: 1 June 2025
vossius.uva.nl/shared/subsi...
Then join us at the Vossius Center of the University of Amsterdam.
Applications for fellowships in 2026 are now open.
Deadline: 1 June 2025
vossius.uva.nl/shared/subsi...
Beware of your Greenlandic dreams. Ruins of Medieval Church at Qaqortukulooq, in one of the Scandinavian settlements. After hundreds of years in Greenland, the settlements died out in the 15th century, for unknown reasons.
January 8, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Beware of your Greenlandic dreams. Ruins of Medieval Church at Qaqortukulooq, in one of the Scandinavian settlements. After hundreds of years in Greenland, the settlements died out in the 15th century, for unknown reasons.
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A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨
Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌
Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌
December 19, 2024 at 6:08 PM
A PhD student at CambridgeHPS has been putting “artwork signs” up all around our department next to “ordinary things” and they are brilliant. They unfailingly make me stop and smile and notice the wonderful strangeness of the world ✨
Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌
Best workplace spirit-lift hack I’ve seen in a long time 🙌
Exiting! New volume of History of Humanities, with introductions to texts that you can use to teach the history of the humanities in Africa.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/curr...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/curr...
History of Humanities | Vol 9, No 2
www.journals.uchicago.edu
December 17, 2024 at 11:32 AM
Exiting! New volume of History of Humanities, with introductions to texts that you can use to teach the history of the humanities in Africa.
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/curr...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/hoh/curr...
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Schicksale der Theorie
December 5, 2024 at 7:34 AM
Schicksale der Theorie
Time and history. The story of an abusive relationship in 8 parts. Once time and history worked together revealing the past. 1
November 30, 2024 at 1:07 PM
Time and history. The story of an abusive relationship in 8 parts. Once time and history worked together revealing the past. 1
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Just started this pack on researchers who work with the philosophy of history broadly understood (including the history of historiography) - please let me know if you want to be added. We're not many and we're spread quite far and wide, so anything helps.
go.bsky.app/NoGHFec
go.bsky.app/NoGHFec
November 24, 2024 at 12:55 AM
Just started this pack on researchers who work with the philosophy of history broadly understood (including the history of historiography) - please let me know if you want to be added. We're not many and we're spread quite far and wide, so anything helps.
go.bsky.app/NoGHFec
go.bsky.app/NoGHFec
Cultures boxed-in and removed from history. Map of “African Tribal Art”, divided according to the “One Tribe, One Style” principle. Produced for conference at Indiana University, September 28-30, 1961.
November 23, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Cultures boxed-in and removed from history. Map of “African Tribal Art”, divided according to the “One Tribe, One Style” principle. Produced for conference at Indiana University, September 28-30, 1961.
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Marc Bloch, historien et résistant, va entrer au Panthéon, annonce Emmanuel Macron
November 23, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant, va entrer au Panthéon, annonce Emmanuel Macron
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Our interview with Dr Ikhlas Abdel Latief, Sudan’s director of Museums, about the recent looting of the Sudan National Museum
theconversation.com/sudans-natio...
theconversation.com/sudans-natio...
Sudan’s national treasures have been stolen – we spoke with the director of museums
The war in Sudan has seen the looting of the country’s museums. Heritage boss Ikhlas Abdel Latief speaks about the losses.
theconversation.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:26 PM
Our interview with Dr Ikhlas Abdel Latief, Sudan’s director of Museums, about the recent looting of the Sudan National Museum
theconversation.com/sudans-natio...
theconversation.com/sudans-natio...
Why do we hold on to things of the past? A short piece with some thoughts on Napoleon's hat, published in the delightfully odd CANOA project and its ‘enciclopEdia arbitraria’ earlier this year. www.canoageopam.org/post/napoleo...
NAPOLEON’S HAT
Why do we hold on to things of the past?Kasper Risbjerg EskildsenRoskilde University, DenmarkOn July 14, 1807, during the battle of Friedland, southeast of Königsberg, where the French army defeated t...
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November 21, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Why do we hold on to things of the past? A short piece with some thoughts on Napoleon's hat, published in the delightfully odd CANOA project and its ‘enciclopEdia arbitraria’ earlier this year. www.canoageopam.org/post/napoleo...
A philosophy of history for an industrial age. The Three-Age System - Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age - at the World Fair in Paris in 1889. (Picture from the Danish National Museum).
November 19, 2024 at 9:07 PM
A philosophy of history for an industrial age. The Three-Age System - Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age - at the World Fair in Paris in 1889. (Picture from the Danish National Museum).
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Online talk on the making of national heritage in the Department of Archeology at Cambridge this coming Wednesday.
November 17, 2024 at 1:34 PM
Online talk on the making of national heritage in the Department of Archeology at Cambridge this coming Wednesday.
I started a History of Humanities starter pack. Let me know who else is here or maybe would like to join: go.bsky.app/DtJP68h
November 17, 2024 at 6:02 PM
I started a History of Humanities starter pack. Let me know who else is here or maybe would like to join: go.bsky.app/DtJP68h
For those who are in Copenhagen (and know Danish), on 25/11, I will give a lecture on ethnographic storage under the British Museum and how it reshaped the view of African history. The event will be in the inner city. People working in the storage in 1962.
November 17, 2024 at 11:39 AM
For those who are in Copenhagen (and know Danish), on 25/11, I will give a lecture on ethnographic storage under the British Museum and how it reshaped the view of African history. The event will be in the inner city. People working in the storage in 1962.
In 1786, captain Antonio del Rio visited the Mayan city of Palenque and convinced himself that the ancient Romans, Greeks, or Phoenicians had visited. Among the evidence sent to Madrid was this stela from the throne of King Pakal. What did he see that I don’t?
November 15, 2024 at 7:11 PM
In 1786, captain Antonio del Rio visited the Mayan city of Palenque and convinced himself that the ancient Romans, Greeks, or Phoenicians had visited. Among the evidence sent to Madrid was this stela from the throne of King Pakal. What did he see that I don’t?